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As the income gap between rich and poor widens, a majority of Americans say the growing divide is bad for the country and believe that wealthy people are paying too little in taxes, according to a new survey.

Major news stories ebb and flow, rising to the headlines and then slipping out of the spotlight. But even as they fade from attention, keep an eye on this handful of long-term issues with the potential to disrupt the U.S. economy and global recovery.

In an academic study, the majority of Americans polled advocated an unequal division of national wealth, with more cash going to the rich and upper middle class and less going to the poor and working class. However, the respondents ideal model of income and wealth distribution, though far from equal, came far closer to the reality of Sweden than the much more dramatic inequality found in the U.S.